Wale Akinterinwa, an aspirant for the governorship position under the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, has accused Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State, who also serves as the Chairman of the party’s primary election committee, of fabricating election results.
He claims that the APC did not conduct any primary election in the state’s 203 wards.
Governor Ododo declared Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the state’s incumbent governor, as the party’s governorship candidate after he reportedly received the highest number of votes in the primary election.
Akinterinwa criticized the APC’s primary election process in Ondo State, labeling it a “show of shame.” In a statement released by his campaign organization spokesperson, Mr. Segun Ajiboye, Akinterinwa asserted that no election took place in any part of Ondo State on the said date.
According to the statement: “Without any fear of contradiction, we state here that no election was held in any part of Ondo on Saturday to elect the candidate of the APC.
“It is on record with incontrovertible evidence that nothing in the semblance of a primary election was held in all the 203 wards in Ondo.
“At best, what can be said to have happened was that the committee chairman, Gov. Ododo, arrived in the state at about 8 am on Saturday to write the result of an election that was never conducted.
“Saturday’s election presented our dear party with a rare opportunity to endear itself to the people of the state.
“All that was needed was for us to organise an election that would be hailed by all, even the opposition.”
